WHY JOSHUA?

Hudson Valley Local

Joshua lives full time in the Hudson Valley. It's definitely an advantage to have someone who knows your wedding venue or location well. He also knows about some secret waterfalls and swimming holes for the perfect portrait session or post wedding chill session.

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Wedding Industrial Complex

Weddings are more than pretty pictures of the couple and details of their stuff. Joshua's portfolio is full of genuine moments, not Instagram and Pinterest fluff.

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Joshua's Forest

Joshua owns a 9 acre forest in the Catskills (Andes), and you can use it for portraits, skip the whole wedding planning process and elope there, or just enjoy a camping weekend if that’s more your thing.

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Low Key Approach

Joshua is from the South. He is unnervingly calm when things hit the fan. He’s fluent in both nervous bride and surly groom. You’ll forget he’s there until you need him.

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Speed

The days of waiting weeks or months for wedding photos are long gone. For Joshua, editing generally takes less than a day (in 2018 his average delivery time was about a week). If another photographer tells you to expect your edits when the leaves fall next year, they’re wasting your time.

Experience

Joshua has worked as a photojournalist and documentary photographer for over 20 years. He knows where to look to find moments worth capturing. He knows how to deal with less-than-ideal light. He makes images for you, not his Instagram feed. He makes photos for your family to cherish for generations.

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Timeless Images

Joshua’s post-production and composition techniques are timeless. He doesn’t need to use tricks or force you into never-ending poses. Genuine moments unfold in front of him and he knows how to see them. Your wedding isn’t his high school art project.

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All in one package

Rather than deal with three different vendors for your photography, videography, and photo booth. Book it all through us and quit stressing about wedding planning.

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Hudson Valley Wedding Photography

Joshua and his team are based in New York’s Hudson Valley, about an hour north of NYC. We specialize in weddings, but also offer family portrait sessions, videography, and a photo booth that can be booked with or without a wedding package. Our new studio space in Newburgh can be rented out for tiny weddings, rehearsal dinners, and elopements.

We think you’ll see something different when you browse through our portfolio: gorgeous moments from a diverse client list, hearty laughs and dad joke results, beautiful light and color, and timeless images that were shot 15 years ago next to ones that were shot last summer. What you won’t see are many Martha Stewart-ready detail shots (though we’ll shoot them at your wedding if you ask us to). They don’t really tell your entire story and we believe the industry has placed too much emphasis on them. We would much rather find a nice portrait of a wallflower than take our 75th shot of the cake.

After surviving New York City for 9 years, Joshua moved upstate to the Hudson Valley in 2014 and hasn’t regretted it for a second. When he’s not photographing weddings near waterfalls, evergreen forests, or old historic estates, he’s probably hiking around them with his family. In 2017, he bought a property in the Catskills with a beautiful trout stream and eloped there.

There’s a reason so many New Yorkers are choosing to skip the typical NYC wedding factories: drive (or train) a couple hours north and you’re in a whole other world, one that’s filled with stunning, unique wedding venues that are surrounded by some of the most gorgeous landscapes in the country. Celebrate your love and get a little peace and quiet for once. And getting back to real life in the city — if you want to — is just as easy.

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PRICING

We primarily offer photography, videography, photo booths, and portraits. Follow this link for details, but in general, weekend weddings are going to start around $5000 for Joshua, or $3000 for one of his associates. Elopements start at $1500. Portrait sessions start around $750. Click here to see more details and request a customized quote for your event.